• answersplease77@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      bro careful especially if you’re in EU, the CEO of the Linux company himself warned they will go after and bring people into court for using pirated copies

      • HyperMegaNet@lemm.ee
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’m not sure if you’re being serious here or not, but I too have a tux tattoo. I knew at the time that it wasn’t a unique idea, but I’ve never met anyone else who has one. There must be dozens of us.

        Do people also ask you if it’s Pingu or something from club penguin?

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          1·
          4 months ago

          Do people also ask you if it’s Pingu or something from club penguin?

          I also get asked if he’s like, a hockey team mascot or something. (I have a Tux patch on my hat haha)

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    59·
    4 months ago

    Shout out to my buddy who has been using an un-activated copy of Win10 for over 5 years despite being called out anytime he shares his screen.

    And yes we told him how to but “It doesn’t bother him”

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    42·
    4 months ago

    Where can I get the privacy nightmare AI application for Linux? I want it to take screenshots of my computer (in case I want to search it), never really use it, but store the data on my PC unencrypted, thus able to be hacked.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      26·
      4 months ago

      Without RedHat, we wouldnt have Linux in the US governments, no SELinux, no Android security.

      I think there is worse than companies selling Linux

      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        4 months ago

        I’ll thank them when they stop remaking perfectly fine utilities over minor issues then doing a shitty job with compatibility.

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
          3·
          4 months ago

          Example?

          Podman, virt-manager, toolbx, tuned are the software I know. I could agree on a few that redoing some is bad

          • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            Fucking podman… Oh man. I have lost way too many hours dealing with podman.

            It’s frustrating, because they’ve put so much into it. It’s close enough that vendors think they can get away with saying their containers are compatible and they’ve probably really honestly tested for brief periods and it really usually is close enough that you don’t discover the differences until you’re already very well established, but then it’s just a little different and it takes you FOREVER to find out why but then the only option once you do find that out is to completely start over from scratch with docker. And, almost no vendor is going to treat them differently because if we talk to redhat, the first note we’ll get back is that everything we’re trying to do should be fully compatible and there should be no need to worry about that. And, then eventually after a few weeks, it’s docker’s fault that IT WORKS IN DOCKER AND NOT IN PODMAN. Docker needs to go fix it so it’s broken for them too, it’s not a bug for podman, the problem is with the one that’s working.

            I’m a bit traumatized, not always the same, but this isn’t a singular occurrence.

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          21·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, that’s definitely worse than all the benefits they mentioned. 🙄

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        I generally agree with you, but wasn’t SELinux primarily the NSA and Tresys? I know it’s a primarily Red Hat thing now, but I think it would have existed in some form without them.

        It is entirely possible I’m misinformed.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        15·
        4 months ago

        The good old 2000s when you could host and successfully distribute any virus disguised as something popular by slapping a _full, _HD or .rar/zip (or any combination) at the end of the file name.

        I used to look up lard bread and there was a hit for lard bread_full.rar on the first page.

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 months ago

          I didn’t know what lard bread is, so I looked it up.

          I discovered it was bread with prosciutto baked in. I thought it sounded unappealing.

          Then I thought of “making bacon pancakes” and thought I should open my mind.

          edit: added a missing word.

          • Dicska@lemmy.world
            4·
            4 months ago

            So the thing is, English is not my first language and I used the wrong word. I guess it’s more like greasy bread. Just plain pig fat spread on a slice of bread. But what you just described actually sounds awesome.

            • toynbee@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 months ago

              Ah, I apologize, I did not intend to mock. Both sound potentially appealing. Thanks for the clarification!

              • Dicska@lemmy.world
                4·
                4 months ago

                Oh, there was 0 offense taken, mockery didn’t even cross my mind. I just simply realised I was probably misleading first.

      • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        Root account unavailable, you have not activated the premium account for this Linux installation, please activate by purchasing it for a $5 monthly subscription

        • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Oh it’s subscription based, ok. I have a flash drive for that. Helps me erase the OS and put a whole new one in.

          • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            The installation media you’re attempting to install on this hardware is not supported and does not follow our privacy protection policy, please contact our support team for further assistance

            EDIT: damn I feel like I should get hired by Microsoft or some other sh#t company because I’m getting good at this anti consumer crap

            • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              Bro this notification popped up, and for a couple of seconds I didn’t see that it was lemmy, I didn’t remember this convo, I just saw the anti-consumer corpo speak and I almost lost my shit. I was straight up furious and I hit the notification to come in here and verbally crap in your mouth.

              So yeah, you should look into a career with Micockssoft 🤣